As Massive Crowds of Blacks Gather in Atlanta for Newest Air Jordans, Whites Blamed for 83% of Coronavirus Hospitalizations Being Black in Georgia
How are we going blame this on white people
in Georgia?
Far too many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in
Georgia are black, new CDC data shows — a staggering 83%, Business
Insider, April 30, 2020
A new report from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention released Wednesday found that 83% of people hospitalized
with COVID-19 in Georgia during March were black.
“The
proportion of hospitalized patients who were black was higher than expected
based on overall hospital admissions,” the report said.
The CDC
looked at demographic data from 305 coronavirus patients admitted to eight
hospitals — seven in Atlanta and one in southern Georgia — and found that, out
of the 297 cases in which race was known, 247 patients were black.
Black
people account for 52% of the overall population in Atlanta and 32% in Georgia,
meaning they were significantly overrepresented in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The
report came days after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp allowed some businesses in the
state to reopen, despite pushback from some local officials. Georgia
has over 26,000 reported cases of the coronavirus;
according to projections, the outbreak there won’t reach its peak until after May 2.
Here’s
the breakdown of Georgia’s coronavirus hospitalizations, by race.
The study
doesn’t account for every coronavirus patient in the state, and focuses
primarily on Atlanta hospitals, but the disparity it found aligns with findings
in California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas, and North Carolina, as well as the US
more broadly. In all of those places, black communities are being hit hardest
by the virus.
“We do
not think people of color are biologically or genetically disposed to get
COVID-19,” US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said earlier this month. “But they are socially
predisposed to coronavirus exposure and to have a higher incidence of the very
diseases that put you at risk for severe complications from coronavirus.”
Then there’s this:
To those not social distancing, Atlanta’s mayor has this
message, 11Alive.com, May 5, 2020]
ATLANTA —
A new Forbes magazine article on Monday says
that the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the state of Georgia has increased by
more than 40 percent since Gov. Brian Kemp has reopened the state for business.
Atlanta
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms cited the article in a tweet Monday afternoon,
saying that those who came out in large groups over the weekend and ignored
social distancing were in danger of being exposed to COVID-19. Bottoms cited the people who
gathered in crowds at Greenbriar Mall in southwest Atlanta on Saturday morning
in search of the new version of Nike’s Air Jordan shoe as it went on sale.
Here’s what it
looked like as Jimmy Jazz’s doors opened at Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta.
Everyone I talked to was in line for a new Air Jordan 5 that sold out online.
Not much social distancing
in Atlanta by these black citizens hoping to score the latest Air Jordans…
She also
pointed to crowds gathered at the Mall West End to shoot off fireworks over the
weekend as well as shoppers at Lenox Square in Buckhead, which reopened on
Monday morning.
She
tweeted, “For those who crowded at Greenbriar awaiting the new Jordans, gathered
at Piedmont Pk, shot fireworks at the Mall West End & even those now
shopping at Lennox Square Mall, know that the only thing that’s changed about
Covid-19 is your chance of catching.”
The
modeling data cited in the Forbes article was compiled by Stanford University’s Big Local News in
collaboration with Pitch Interactive and the Google News Initiative. The data indicated
that on April 21, three days before Gov. Kemp began to allow some businesses to
reopen in Georgia, the state ranked as the 16th worst in the United States for
risk of exposure to COVID-19.
The
incidence rate for COVID-19, according to the Big Local News COVID-19 Case Mapper is
calculated as the number of coronavirus cases for every 100,000 people.
According to Forbes, it is the best publicly
available metric for estimating an individual’s risk of exposure to the virus.
The reporting data indicated the incidence rate at that time for Georgia was
180.7.
Five days
later, on April 26, Georgia’s incidence rate had risen to 211.5 — a 30.8
percent increase.
The
incidence rate in Georgia has continued to increase each day since, through May
2 (the most recent date that we have data available), when the rate was 256.8 —
an increase of 42 percent.
Again, when you understand white flight was
the original social distancing, you are immediately capable of comprehending all of post-Shelley vs. Kraemer history in America.
In Georgia, the Coronavirus is
overwhelmingly a disease impacting blacks. The metro Atlanta area has extreme
levels of segregation, because white flight was the original social distancing.
Might the reason the Coronavirus is
impacting blacks disproportionately be found in this story of blacks crowding
together in pursuit of the newest Air Jordan’s from Nike, and failing to
properly practice proper social distancing (obviously, the lining up to procure
the new Nike shoe is a metaphor for how they’ve lived during this pandemic)?
It’s far easier to blame white people in
Georgia than to expect blacks in the state to take any responsibility for the
high rates of Coronavirus impacting their community.
Same goes for the entire nation.
Why in the world does a Family Dollar—where almost every product is $1—need a security guard? What does this say about the clientele? What does this say about the community this store serves?
Everything.
Flint, Michigan is 54 percent black and 37 percent white.
Shot.
(TNS) — Tamara Liberty Smith of Detroit says her social media feed reflects the deadly impact of the coronavirus in Michigan’s largest city, one that also has the most black residents.“I’ve never experienced anything in my life where my social media timeline looks like an obituary,” said Smith, a lifelong Detroiter who ran a failed bid for Detroit City Council in 2017. “You cannot scroll … not knowing someone who has been attacked by the virus or who has experienced death from the virus.”The pandemic has shed light on the disproportionately high number of deaths in the black community, especially in Detroit where nearly 80 percent of the population is black. Detroit has seen the highest number of cases and deaths due to coronavirus, with 922 deaths as of Sunday.Statewide, 32 percent of all confirmed coronavirus cases in Michigan involved black patients, yet they make up about 13.6 percent of the state’s 10 million people. More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the state are African Americans.Underlying health issues within the black community, poverty that restricts access to medical care, crowded living situations and a general lack of trust in the health system are some of the theories put forth for the high rate of COVID-19 among people who are black.Smith lives in west Detroit on the border of the 48235 ZIP code, an area hardest hit by the virus hit, based on city health data.She called it “baffling” that Detroit has been impacted so harshly, since “a lot of the Detroiters are not travelers; they’re stationary.”“From my perception, this was brought into our city and the people are contracting it,” she said. “How? That part I’m still wondering (about) … A lot of Detroiters don’t even leave the city, let along the country, and the virus is running rampant.Other than some youth who feel impervious to the virus, Smith said most people she knows are practicing social distancing and isolation in line with the governor’s orders.State Rep. Tyrone Carter, a coronavirus survivor, points across a busy street from his front porch to a field on the outskirts of Detroit.“There used to be a hospital there,” he says.Carter said a lack of access to quality, affordable health care in the black community is one of many reasons the coronavirus has killed a disproportionately high number of black people in Michigan and Detroit.
Chaser.
Michigan security guard killed at Family Dollar store after asking customer to wear mask, KTLA.com, May 3, 2020]:A security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, was shot and killed after telling a customer to wear a state-mandated face mask, police said.Calvin Munerlyn, 43, died at a local hospital after he was shot in the head Friday, said Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser.The shooter and a second suspect remain at large, Kaiser told CNN on Monday.Witnesses at the store told police that Munerlyn got into a verbal altercation with a woman because she was not wearing a mask, said Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton. Surveillance video confirms the incident, Leyton said.Under an executive order from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, all retail employees and customers have to wear a mask.Footage also shows that immediately after the altercation, the woman left in an SUV.
But about 20 minutes later, the SUV returned.Two men entered the store and one of them yelled at Munerlyn about disrespecting his wife, Leyton said. The other man then shot the security guard.“This is senseless. Over a mask. Over a mask?” Munerlyn’s cousin, Tina James, told CNN affiliate WJRT. “This is not the way to do things right now. We need to come together.”Family Dollar did not respond to a request for comment.
Calvin Munerlyn was a black male who was employed at the Family Dollar in Flint, Michigan to provide security at a store where nearly every product is $1. The city of Flint is 54 percent black (63 percent nonwhite), and Mr. Munerlyn asked a black customer of the Family Dollar where he provided security to put on a mask to stop the potential spread of Coronavirus. She refused and came back with two black males. They participated in his murder, invalidating the claim Black Lives Matter and that white people are somehow responsible for black deaths during the Coronavirus.
45-year-old Sharmel Teague, 44-year-old Larry Edward Teague Jr., and 23-year-old Ramonyea Bishop were all arrested for his murder. They are all black.
Why are blacks dying disproportionately of the Coronavirus across the United States? Why do black engage in a disproportionate amount of violent (both as victim and suspect) in violent crime across America? The answer to both questions is what great men like Carleton Putnam dared to address during his life on this planet, so that his posterity would live free of the insanity of egalitarian thinking.
I’m sorry this happened to you, Calvin Munerlyn.
But in what type of community does a Family Dollar need a security guard? The question answers itself.
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